{"id":5389,"date":"2009-02-10T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=5389"},"modified":"2009-02-09T13:26:59","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T18:26:59","slug":"cankles-a-sign-of-good-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/cankles-a-sign-of-good-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Cankles, a Sign of Good Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever look down to find that your calf and ankle seem to have morphed into one continuous body part? Popular culture has termed this attractive feature the &#8220;cankle.&#8221; Everyone from <a title=\"pregnancy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/topics\/pregnancy\/\" target=\"_self\">pregnant<\/a> women to those carrying some extra weight have been plagued by the cankle, but none have yet to embrace it.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5393\" title=\"ankles\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/ankles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Studies on fat distribution in the body show that an ankle that has lost definition, having joined itself with calf, could be a signal of better health, for those who aren&#8217;t <a title=\"obesity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/tag\/obesity\/\" target=\"_self\">obese<\/a>. Those carrying extra weight in their lower body are less likely to have weight-related health problems, like those who carry weight in their abdomen, which puts additional strain on the organs.<\/p>\n<p>Wendy Kohrt, PhD, a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado &#8211; Denver, says &#8220;leg fat may protect postmenopausal women by drawing triglycerides out of the bloodstream, where they constitute a risk factor, and into fat deposits in the legs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Prevention Magazine March 2026<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever look down to find that your calf and ankle seem to have morphed into one continuous body part? Popular culture has termed this attractive feature the &#8220;cankle.&#8221; Everyone from pregnant women to those carrying some extra weight have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/cankles-a-sign-of-good-health\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3687],"tags":[1371,8375,342,31,92,716,163],"class_list":["post-5389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-health","tag-body-fat","tag-cankles","tag-health","tag-health-news","tag-obesity","tag-overweight","tag-prevention"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5395,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions\/5395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}